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École Riverside Secondary School
School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)
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Ceramics & Pottery Courses:

 Ceramics 10

Learn how to think and then build in 3-D using Mother Nature’s ultimate building material – clay! Various building techniques such as pinch, coil, slab and wheel throwing will be taught. Students will also learn to finish their work using under glaze, glaze, and cold finishing techniques.

 Ceramics 11

Planning a career in science? In medicine? In Dentistry? Animation? All of these careers and many more require that you understand how to think and build in 3D. In Ceramics 11 you will learn about one of the oldest, yet most versatile building materials known to man – clay! Learn the various hand building, wheel throwing and decorating techniques. Other sculptural media such as wood, wire, plaster and stone may be explored.

 Ceramics 12

This course will give students who have learned basic hand-building and wheel techniques the opportunity to undertake extended studio projects. Further opportunities will be given to work in rigid materials and to make glazes. A report will be done on the historical aspects of clay or sculpture media.

École Riverside Secondary School

2215 Reeve Street, Port Coquitlam BC
V3C 6K8
604-941-6053 604-937-8058 riverside@sd43.bc.ca
7:30 am - 4:00 pm
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